Meteorology

Brian Colle, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in Atmospheric Sciences at the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences. His research focuses in the structure and dynamics of meoscale phenomena in the coast zones of North America, as well as meoscale numerical modeling and forecasting. He was the first person to successfully obtain the three-dimensional flow over mountainous terrain using an aircraft Doppler radar and is also is conducting idealized simulations of the interactions of fronts with the steep coastal terrain of western North America.

Specific areas of expertise: Synoptic meteorology. Meoscale numerical modeling and forecasting. Coastal meteorology.

Marine Sciences

David O. Conover, Ph.D., is Professor and Dean of the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences and one of the world's leading experts on the ecology of marine fishes and fisheries science. In 1997-98, he was named as the first recipient of the Mote Eminent Scholar Chair in Fisheries Ecology, a prestigious international award honoring those who have made major advances in the understanding of harvested marine resources. His most recent research, funded by the National Science Foundation and the New York Sea Grant Institute, involves determination of the long-term evolutionary (Darwinian) impacts of size-selective harvest regimes on the productivity of marine fish stocks. Much of his research involves species of great economic importance to New York such as bluefish, striped bass, and Atlantic silversides.

Specific areas of expertise: Marine Fisheries Science. Fish Ecology. Conservation of living marine resources.

Henry Bokuniewicz, Ph.D., is a Professor at the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences. He has conducted studies on the behavior of coastal sedimentary systems and coastal groundwater hydrology. Much of his research is directly applicable to problems of coastal zone management. Other research centers around practical problems of groundwater seepage at the sea floor, shore erosion, dredging and the dispersal of dredged sediments, and marine mining.

Specific areas of expertise: Nearshore transport processes. Coastal groundwater hydrology. Coastal sedimentation. Marine geophyscis.

Malcolm Bowman, Ph.D., is a Professor at the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences. His research interests include the dynamics of coastal fronts, eddies, island wakes, and coastal sea straits. He uses a combination of observations and model simulations to describe dynamically fundamental physical processes in shallow seas and estuaries, and how these processes control and influence the structure and production of the marine food chain from phtyplankton up to, and including, fish. Professor Bowman is also principal investigator of the Stony Brook Storm Surge Research Group, which develops and tests meteorological-ocean models to predict coastal storm surges.

Specific areas of expertise: Coast, ocean and estuarine dynamics; coastal storm surges.

Gordon T. Taylor, Ph.D., Gordon T. Taylor is a Professor at the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences. His expertise includes: microbial mediation of biogeochemical cycles, trophic interactions among microorganisms (bacteria, protozoans, algae and viruses), microbial biofouling, nuisance blooms, such as Brown Tide and ecology of pathogenic microbes in marine systems. His current research focuses on microbiological and chemical exchange processes across interfaces, novel microbial metabolisms and the microbial ecology of organic debris as it is transported from sites of production to sites of deposition. His research has implications on the oceans' carbon cycle and global climate change.

Specific areas of interest: Marine microbiology. Microbial ecology. Marine pathogens (bacteria and viruses). Global carbon cycle. Marine biofouling

Oceanography

Robert L. Swanson, Ph.D. is a physical and coastal oceanographer who focuses on marine pollution and solid waste issues. He is Director of the Waste Reduction and Management Institute, and Associate Dean of the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences. While maintaining a research program on the above topics, he also is active in using science to influence public policy.

Specific areas of expertise: Physical and coastal oceanography. Marine pollution. Marine policy, ocean policy, and solid waste issues.

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